Treasure of the Sierra Madre

It would be presumptuous of me to review Return With Honor, a documentary directed by Freida Lee Mock and Terry Sanders, who also co-wrote it with Christine Z. Wiser. Both the writing and the direction are quite unobtrusive, and the picture consists almost entirely of interviews with American prisoners of war, most of them Navy…

The X-Files, directed by Rob Bowman (no relation) and written by the series’s creator, Chris Carter, gives us an example of the perfect post-modern movie, because it presents to us a non-functional conspiracy. That is to say, the conspiracy is detached from its objective, or else the objective is so obscure that it remains unclear…

An unexpectedly amusing variation on an old French theme

Comic gangsters reassure us that, even in the most civilized of countries, civilization is for suckers.

The comic foundations of the original Barbershop are not sturdy enough to bear the weight of another such edifice

An always-watchable, sometimes moving account of nine women coming to terms with loss